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It’s time for another Alexander Technique myth (I have a collection*). A hotly debated myth, it goes like this:- “I can’t stop it if I don’t know what I’m doing.” It also appears as “I have to know what I’m…

For the second of my Alexander Technique myths, I want you to imagine a lesson where I am working with a student on letting go of the oh-so-tense muscles in the back of their head and neck. Imagine that this…

Most of us don’t consider our intake of oxygen to be an issue. That is, until we do something like a session on a cross-trainer. One of these things:- It uses your legs, uses your arms and really pushes your…

Santa Claus eats 91.8 million mince pies every year* (or cookies, or sausages, depending on the country). Most of us go slightly overboard when it comes to food and drink at this time of year. Parties. Dinners. Family-sized tins of…

I have a confession to make. Just recently I’ve taken on a smidgen too much. One result is no blogs, no tweets, no Facebook comments, no knitting – you may have noticed (apart from the knitting). Words like ‘swamped’ and…